Sing a Song of Sex

6.1

Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate and meet up with their inebriated teacher while singing bawdy-drinking songs. (Source: IMDb)

Japan’s Longest Summer

3.3

The year is 1963. Twenty-eight former military and government officials meet at a restaurant in Ginza to lament over Japan’s decision to surrender in World War II.

Dark Tales of Japan: Special Edition

6.4

It comprises five short horror stories, directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told through a mysterious old lady in a kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long, isolated mountain road. >>…

Renewable Japan: The Search for a New Energy Paradigm

The lawyer and director Kawai Hiroyuki present how pioneering individuals, communities, and companies are meeting their energy needs in Japan and around the world. Together with Iida Tetsunari, the director shows the…

Japan's Longest Day

7.3

Depicting the time period from August 14, 1945 at noon until August 15. It depicted the Emperor and the cabinet as they decide to surrender and the subsequent radio broadcast announcing the decision to the Japanese…

Night and Fog in Japan

7.0

The wedding of two former student activists is interrupted by an uninvited guest, also a former activist. The film explores the rise and fall of student activism in 1950's Japan following the Japan-US Security Treaty…

Japan's Tragedy

5.9

A retired widower, Murai Fujio, who after being diagnosed with lung cancer, refuses treatment and shuts himself in his room with his wife’s altar. Meanwhile, his unemployed son is suffering with depression after…

Ley Lines

7.3

A group of Chinese youths living in Japan struggle to make their way in life and eventually find trouble with the local crime syndicate.

Nuclear Japan: The Nightmare Continues

A complete picture of Japan's nuclear problem is drawn in this documentary. Based on interviews with concerned parties and experts as well as documents and information gathered on-site, the film seeks out the truths…

Japan Sinks: People of Hope

7.8

In 2023 in Tokyo, Prime Minister Higashiyama Eiichi pushes for COMS at the World Environment Conference. COMS is a method to liquify pollutants and store it in the crack of the sea floor. Prime Minister Higashiyama…

Higashi Yoichi

Known in the West mainly for one film, Village of Dreams (E no naka no boku no mura, 1996), Higashi has in fact produced an oeuvre of consistent intelligence and unobtrusive political commitment along liberal and progressive lines. His feature debut, People of the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa rettō, 1969),…

Hitoto Yo

Hitoto Yo, born September 20, 1976 in Taiwan, is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. Hitoto is best known for her extremely popular debut single "Morai Naki". She is Taiwanese through her father and Japanese through her mother. Hitoto Yo lived in Taipei until her kindergarten years, then moved to Japan…

Ko Hideo

Ko Hideo, born Yoshida Hideo (吉田英男) in Tomari, Sakhalin, Russia, was a Japanese singer and actor. The youngest of eight siblings, he was adopted by his maternal aunt's family shortly after birth. Both his biological and adoptive families were involved in the paper industry and had connections…

Horikoshi Kenzo

Horikoshi Kenzo is a Japanese film producer. He is the representative of the film production and distribution company Eurospace and also holds the position of Honorary Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Since 2021, he has been a professor at the Anime and Manga Faculty of Kaishi Professional…

Ota Tadashi

Ota Tadashi was a Japanese composer and pianist born in Tokyo, Japan. His date of death is unknown. He became acquainted with the organ at the age of 8 and began studying piano and composition at the age of 15. After graduating from commercial school in 1919, he composed numerous songs and children's…

Aoe Shunjiro

Aoe Shunjiro, whose real name is Oshima Chosaburo (大嶋長三郎), was a Japanese playwright and critic. He was born in Akita, Japan, as the eldest son of the drug merchant Eiseido. Initially named Eiichi (衛一), he adopted the name Chosaburo after his father's death in 1915. Aoe attended Akita…

Kamei Fumio

Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…

Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Naraoka Tomoko

Tomoko Naraoka is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongou (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel…

Iwato Shisetsu

He was a Benshi and could read and translate English scripts. After that, he made his debut as a movie director at the company, and a work called "Nippon Sakura" released at "Daiichi Bunmeikan" on May 23, 1909 (Meiji 42). Shooting of the work is, in the 10 years after Toyojiro Takamatsu "the activities…